Joanne Williams Paintings and Collages
ANCIENT ECHOES II  36
ANCIENT ECHOES II 36" X 36" X 2"
My artwork is as much invisible as it
is apparent to the eye, figures gaze at
sights unknown, landscapes dissolve
into the abstraction of shapes over
imperceptible boundaries, and color,
more vivid and surreal than sunset or
irridescence, animates scenes composed
at once of the mystical and the natural.
The ethereal and stylized cast of the
worlds I create act in familiar ways; they
row boats,ride horses, touch one another
and stand quietly. Yet these activities, far
from seeming mundane, guide us as
vestiges of mythical experience .
My aesthetic, I hope,illuminates a plane
of existence visible nowhere else except
in the portals of my paintings and collages.
It is the summation of a long and
intricate process of refinement.